Comment Darwin will eat Linux for breakfast (Score 1) 465
Linux is already dead: every major ISV is backing away from any new committments (and, yes, I have the urls - so dont even bother).
Darwin has the intrinsic advantage that more drivers and apps will be availible just by piggy-backing on a *mass-market* platform (OS) that is the CORE committment of a major OEM (Apple).
Everything that Linux can do Darwin can do better.
Long term advantages for Darwin over linux:
* Microkernels have suprior architecture
* BSD is the 'mother' of all */nix innovation: linux is just a clone/hack.
It's not even fair to include "OSX" in the comparison with linux: Darwin beats linux all by itself.
And Darwin (now) runs on x86.
Watch out.
Darwin has the intrinsic advantage that more drivers and apps will be availible just by piggy-backing on a *mass-market* platform (OS) that is the CORE committment of a major OEM (Apple).
Everything that Linux can do Darwin can do better.
Long term advantages for Darwin over linux:
* Microkernels have suprior architecture
* BSD is the 'mother' of all */nix innovation: linux is just a clone/hack.
It's not even fair to include "OSX" in the comparison with linux: Darwin beats linux all by itself.
And Darwin (now) runs on x86.
Watch out.
